By Gail Burns Happy Thanksgiving to one and all! Now you can listen to my in-depth interviews with the leaders of many of this month’s cultural events on my Will Call podcasts on The Greylock Glass Website, as well as read my theatre reviews at BerkshireOnStage.com. Westward Ho Ho Ho!: While we may wish […]

Since 1998, the Williamstown Film Festival has brought the finest contemporary films, directors and actors to the pastoral and culturally rich hills of the Berkshires. Each Film Festival season aimed to honor film’s history while concurrently celebrating the present cultural moment. As previously announced, Steve Lawson ended his sixteen-season tenure as Artistic Director earlier this […]

By Adrian Dunn The creative spark can be catching, which is why Makerspaces have been cropping up across the country in the last ten years. One of them is now housed in downtown North Adams. Art lovers in the Northern Berkshires have already been enjoying the wonderful art museums and artists’ studios that periodically show […]

By Anne Valk Last summer I moved from Providence, Rhode Island, to North Adams. Trading one small industrial city for another, I have observed similarities and differences in the ways residents of each area have responded to current economic, social, and environmental challenges. Facing population losses precipitated by the decline in manufacturing and ecological damages […]

By Gail Burns October starts off with the Fall Foliage Festivities and 60th Fall Foliage Parade in North Adams September 30-October 4 and continues with excellent adventures outdoors and in to celebrate the most beautiful season in the Berkshires. Explore Stone Hill: The Williamstown Conservation Commission hosts a ceremony and half hour hike at 2 pm […]

By William McGuire III Like my home city of Detroit, the Berkshires are filled with the corpses of industry— here they are old mills and shops, while at home they are rusting auto plants surrounded by empty lots and abandoned homes. The story is virtually the same; industry was the backbone of the town, until […]

By Gail Burns September is just about the perfect month—not too hot, not too cold, still some summer left but the beautiful foliage is starting, the new school year brings our college campuses back to life. There’s so much to enjoy! A Better Community: Is there a human being in North County whose wardrobe isn’t […]

By Priscilla M. Northup When I was growing up in North Adams, residents would exchange stories about Billy Barber—William J. Barber—an inventor, mechanical genius and prankster who lived from 1881 until 1940. He was married to my mother’s only sister, Rhoda Knuckey Barber, and they had no children. My parents, Fred A. and Mildred K. […]

A helping hand grounded in faith By Tela Zasloff Mark Rondeau and Al Nelson, co-founders of the Northern Berkshire Interfaith Action Initiative and its Friendship Center Food Pantry, believe that the interfaith aspect of the organization is crucial to its appeal to the community. Mark explains: “Our Food Pantry sign out front says Friendship Center. […]

By Williams McGuire III Since he threw the second no-hitter in SteepleCats history against the Sanford Mainers on June 20th, SteepleCats pitcher Dakota Edwards #4 has had no shortage of interview requests and local praise. Edwards was surprisingly unfazed by the accomplishment. He prefers to live in the moment, he says, and focus on the […]